Seventy-Second Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSrrY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ere Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail" r444 ,, ~, ". . ', LET' Mackinac Bridg( Paying Its Way Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. Y, MARCH 2, 1962 NIGHT EDITOR: JUDITH OPPENHEIM A Visit to JintJudie By JOHN ROBERTS, Editor )w \ .4 s:5?A" O "9 a , t '.ir l v X . . Si . .__._ " . _i ALTHOUGH Joint Judiciary sessions are closed to the public, I recently was granted the opportunity of sitting in on two meetings to improve my understanding of how the coun- ol operates. I was able to note in detail the forms and procedures used, and also to observe the attitudes, knowledge and perception of the Council members. I can report that in all re- spects, Joint Judiciary Council was far worse, than I had expected. I came away appalled and shaken. Cases are brought to Judic by the assistant dean of men for discipline and his female coun- terpart, who get their information from several sources. Sometimes the police get a complaint and make an arrest, then turn the case over to the University. Sometimes they refer the com- plaint to the University, and Investigator Swoverland investigates. Sometimes reports come up through the University's security chan- nels. And surprisingly often, according to As- sistant Dean John Bingley, reports just drift in over the grapevine. When ,a violation is suspected, the offender Is interviewed by the appropriate dean, who may either deal with the case himself or refer It to Joint Judic. If the dean chooses the latter course, he prepares a brief statement of the facts of the case for Council's use. E COUNCIL convenes Thursdays at 7:15 p.m. in the Student Government Council room. The doors are locked. The Council sits at dne end of the large coffin-shaped table; Dean Bingley and a representative from the dean of women's office sit at a separate, smaller table. the mimeographed statements of fact are look- ad over. Someone then goes to the door and asks lhe students involved to come in. They sit at ihe table opposite the members of council and ire asked to check the statement of factsfor accuracy. Then the chairman of Joint Judic reads the following statement: "Your case has been referred to, us by the Office of the Dean of Men. On the basis of your testimony this evening and the facts before us, this council will make a decision. Our purpose is not to sit as a court which merely invokes penalties, but rather as a group o your pers trying to achieve with you a better understanding of a student's responsibility to the University community. In order to make our decision as just and equitable as possible, we ask for your full cooperation in determining all the facts relevant to this case.- Next the members of Coudcil in no par- icular order, question the students to learn nore about the case and to determine, as far is posible, how the students feel about it. "his questioning takes about twenty minutes. At its close, the chairman asks the students f they have anything to add, and whether they re under any extreme financial hardship while ttending the University. TEE COUNCIL next considers guilt, offense and penalty in the absence of the students, jho may be asked to remain outside until a lecision has been reached, or sent home to be atified by mail. These deliberations may take half hour or more. First, a consensus is established as to the uilt or innocence of the parties. If it is agreed hey are guilty, the more laborious task of ormulating a charge begins. Several alterna- 1ye charges are usually suggested by Council nembers, ,each beginning "Conduct unbecom- ng a student in that he . . ." and ending with 6 description of the offense. This is usually, but ot always, a paraphrasing of a University, city .r state regulation. The council then votes to .etermine the charge. A penalty is fixed in like 2anner If the students involved were asked to wait utside, they are then recalled and told the de- ison and its rationale. The chairman informs hem they may appeal to the Sub-Committee n Discipline within 24 hours. Copies of their record will be sent to their rets and the schools in which they are en- olled, the students are told, and fines are pay- ble at Window 1 in the Administration Build- qg before the end of the semester. The chair- ian then dismisses them. 'N THE TWO MEETINGS I attended, I sat in on cases involving a group drinking viola- ion and a violation of the rule barring fresh- ian women from apartment parties. One other ase, involving a fraternity drinking violation, 'as closed to me at the request of the chapter's resident. The first meeting was chaired by William Phelps, and by coincidence it was the ast session before the seating of new members nd the election of officers., It was also the last meeting attended by 'atherina Burgeon, Bingley's colleague in mat- ers involving student discipline. Jane Glick haired the second meeting, a month later, and ingley was not present. [HE FIRST SESSION was by far the more frightening. Enough had been said in The aily about lack of due process to prepare me, or that,, but I was not ready for the attitudes meeting was better, but showed many of the same features as the first. I was alarmed, in both meetings, by the Council's cavalier attitude toward due process. Questions were asked which would be ruled out of order in any court in the country. Crucial points were not cleared up or even raised. When formulating a charge (done after guilt was de- cided), the members frequently did not know which law or regulation was involved, or if there was one-and many seemed not to care. During the freshman girls case, for exam- ple, a question arose as to the definition of apartment. It developed that no one had a copy- of the regulation on apartment parties, so an interpretation was made from memory. Later, the Council penalized the girls dates for es- corting them to the party, even though the reg- ulation does not even mention escorts; "I just feel like the date is responsible too," one mem- ber explained. IE LEGITIMACY of the evidence before'the Council was never questioned. Of course, it was confirmed by the accused parties, but they acted without legal counsel. For example, in one ease Swoverland had crashed a quiet drink- ing party. No one asked if he had a warrant. Only one seemed concerned when it turned out he didn't. (I had to raise the question person- ally.) And when I pursued this point with Dean Bingley, Joint Judiciary Council twice broke out in laughter at the amusing ruthlessness of the University's law enforcement. Cases were usually considered hastily. Coun- cil members are students, and some of them had exams to study for. Once a member was pointing out that it was hard to find chaperones for partiesbetween semesters, and that Joint Judic's authority over such events was ques- tionable. He was-cut off by the chairman, who said "We're running late-let's get a charge, then we'll discuss these peripheral matters." DEAN BINGLEY'S INFLUENCE on the Coun- cil is also worth considering. It would be unfair to say he made the members jump through hoops, but he was constantly inter- jecting facts, opinions and exhortations. A question arose as to how much I would be able to report about the closed meetings. The written invitation from Joint Judic had said I was free to print anything that would not tend to injure the, parties whose cases were being heard, but Dean Bingley thought I ought to be much more restricted. One by one the Council members'ehanged their minds and lined up behind him. THE UNCONCERN for constitutionality was one thing that bothered me. But I-was even more alarmed at the Council's hypocrisy. Most of the cases that came up involved offenses like drinking under age, holding unchaperoned par- ties, and the like. These are things which al- most all students do constantly without the slightest sense of guilt. Even Student Govern- ment Council holds unchaperoned parties at times. In such matters, the rules which keep worried alumnae and state legislators happy are plain- ly out of touch with the reality of student cul- ture. One might expect, therefore, that Joint Judic would ,show considerable sympathy for the' students and groups who happen to get caught. It doesn't work that way. The group whose case I saw fas fined $500 ($200 sus-. pended), and the keg hadn't even been, tapped when they were caught. JOINT JUDIC ought to be an agent to bring outmoded rules into line with student mores. Instead, it tries to bring student mores into. line with the rules, an approach which is de- rived from the nonsensical "peer counseling" philosophy I quoted earlier. The meetings I attended were studded with questions/com- ments aimed at persuading the defendant of the wrongness of his act. For example, this dialogue went on in one case: Member: "Didn't you offer any objection to going (to the apartment)? Freshman girl: "No-we don't think it was wrong or sneaky." Member: "You didn't think you were wrong or sneaky, but you were aware of the regula- tion, weren't you? Wouldn't you say this was conduct' unbecoming a student? You didn't think of this as wrong?" Girl (unconvinced, but obliging): "We know now, of course." WHEN THE PROPER HUMILITY wasn't forthcoming, the students' "peers" on Joint Judic could get very sarcastic and snappy. One student who seemed unimpressed with the Council's grandeur was ordered to sit up straight. (The member who gave the order was later criticized by his colleagues.) Another member defended her sarcasm by saying "they were setting there as if nothing was wrong." As I said, the second meeting was far less shattering than the first. The objectionable features- were still there, but there was much livelier argument, a real questioning of pro- cedures and even of the "counseling" philoso- SOh 'VE GROW NQP LET S GET MARR DI" TODAY AND TOMORROW: Competiton itn Space, To the Editor: LAST FALL, The Daily ran an editorial entitled "Mackinac Bridge Rusts After $100 Million." This editorial was replete with inaccuracies, misleading allega- tions and harmful accusations. It is my purpose in the following paragraphs to correct the editorial insofar as possible. The title to your editorial, while intended to be figurative, does make the literal accusation that is not only untrue but damaging to the degree that it might deter some people from using the bridge. To say that the bridge is rusting is a completely irresponsible accu- sation. Your editorial described the bridge as "a grand bit of steel and concrete which is another ex- ample of public works gone wild." On the contrary it is a magnificent engineering achievement and a public work of the highest order. Proof of this lies in the truth that the overwhelming majority of people using the bridge prefer it to the ferry boat service which it replaced. Also, you failed to mention that the State was paying approxi- mately $500,000 a year to make up the operational losses on the ferry service. In addition, capital outlay for boats, docks and such averaged more than a million dollars a year between 1933 and 1953. * * * YOUR EDITORIAL is short sightedly correct in stating that traffic is not up to predictions. However, if your editorial writer had taken the tme to read the entire report of the traffic engi- neers, he would have noted that their estimates of future traffic growth are not comprised of hard and fast figures precise for each year. They are stated in this man- ner for figuring future annual bridge income, but no analyst in his right mind would make a pre- diction over the next 25 or 30 years except as a trend. Your editorial stated "By in- creasing toll rates, the state has .. (held back) .. . pools of red ink." Then it goes on to estimate 1961 toll receipts at $4 million. The editorial was wrong on both counts. The tolls were increased because net bridge earnings were not 20 per cent over total outlay for interest, sinking fund, main- tenancerand operating cost. This is a requirement of the Trust In- denture between the Bridge Au- thority and the bondholders. The Authority has averaged about $600,000 a year over and above all interest and operational expenses. However, it requires $850,000 to meet the Trust In- denture figure. This does not mean "pools of red ink." Second, net revenues, including interest earned on investments were over the $5 million for 1961. * * * YOUR EDITORIAL is critical of the fact that the principal of the loan remains largely un- touched. The comment on this topic again reveals ignorance of the facts. If the Authority were to call bonds before January 1, 1964, it would have to pay a premium 8 per cent, on each bond redeemed. No moneys are ear- marked for the redemption fund until 1964, and then only $260,000. However, it is discretionary as to when any bonds will be redeemed since none mature until 1994. Your editorial writer ventured into areas of economics and soci- ology wherein experts, or even angels would fear to tread. I hesi- tate to challenge him except to comment on his use of such terms as "bed-rock tourists," "welfare- itis," "welfare spenders," pump- priming" and "public works plums." It occurs to me that these are the pet expressions .of the demagogues, and have no place on a University campus, especially when not supported by a single fact. There is no connection between the state's going into debt and the issuance of Mackinac Bridge reve- nue bonds. They are not an obli- gation of the state. They are backed only by revenues of the project. There is no competition between expenditures or even borrowing for education and the Mackinac Bridge. I WOULD AGREE with your editorial that "brightyous Stu- dents don't make good subects for post cards." However, if the idea of, a bright young student is one who so completely shuns ob- tainable facts, and is so obviously abberated in his outlook as the author of the editorial in question, then perhaps we ought tohave an investigation into our expendtures for education. It has always been my belief that obtaining facts, seeking the truth, freedom from preconceived notions were the bed-rock precepts of the real student, including jour- nalists. If I am right let it be so. if I am wrong then we may well be buried. --Prentiss M. Brown, Chairman Mackinac Bridge Authority Why? ... To the Editor: IN THE PAST few weeks The Daily has carried many articles concerning the peace march of February 16 and 17. A large ad- vertisement in your publication during the week before the March offered the -day trip for $15 per person, transportation included, and a front-page report on Feb- ruary 18 stated that the group would attempt to send two dele- gates to the USSR "to explain their position." This information would lead one to ask three ques- tions about the financial resources of the marchers: 1) Who paid the difference be- tween the $15 which each marcher paid and what the trip really cost? (Or can one get to and from Washington, D. C. and stay there for two days on $15?) b) Who financed the obviously expensive ad in The Daily?' 3) Will it be these. same "ghost funds" that will send the. peace march representatives to Russia? At a time when such peace demonstrations attract so much of the public attention and, as representatives of the University and other colleges, attempt to exert their influence on the na- tional government that belongs to all of us, it would seem only pro- per that their financial backing be made public. -Jutdy Meyer,'62 Anarchy . . To the Editor: IT APPEARS to me that the writter of the letter in Thurs- day's Daily, regarding the Strauss House case in East Quadrangle has completely misinterpreted the facts and has come up with the wrong issue. East Quad Council was not so concerned about the party itself, but the fact that Strauss House deliberately violated an East Quad Concil ruling which stated, "that all social events the weekend of the Snowflake Ball be banned, except with the express consent of the East Quad Social Chairman." The issue, therefore, is: should we allow any group to disregard the Quad Council's ruling at will, or should the huses in. East Quadrangle be expected to heed the rulings of East Quad Council? In other words, should we have anarchy or should we have good, sound, responsible Student Gov- ernment? * The case has been decided. An- archy has lost. -Stan Lubin, '63, East Quad. By WALTER LIPPMANN "A SPELL has been broken," says a German newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "the American people and with them the whole Western world no longer stare as if hypnotized at Soviet space successes with pricks of doubt in their hearts as to whether there is not deep deficien- cy in' the democratic order." Col. Glenn's triumphant flight has in- deed broken the spell and removed the doubt. It has alo snown, it seems to me, that in this kind of competi- tion, where there are no exclusive secrets and where the expertness is for all practical purposes equal, each side makes the necessary ef- fort only when it is challenged by the success of the other. That seems to be the story of the Soviet- American rivalry in space during the past fifteen years. In a most striking way the stim- ulus to act has not come from ideology, or from national charac- ter, or from scientific curiosity and adventure. It has come from a challenge to equal and surpass the successes of the other, and neces- sity has been the mother of inven- tion and of progress. * * *r IT SEEMS plain enough that the lead of the Soviet Union has been, and still is, due to the power of its rockets. Col. Glenn's capsule was only about one-quarter of the weight of Gagarins and Titov's, and his rocket had less than half the thrust of theirs. Why? Not because the Soviet en- gineers know something about rockets that our engineers do not know, but because in the late 'for- ties we were able to encircle the Soviet Union in. order to contain it with manned bombers carrying nuclear weapons. We did not then feel that we needed big rockets. But the Soviet Union felt chal- lenged. It could not encircle the United States with manned bombers and so, under the drive of military ne- cessity, set itself to building rock- ets capable of reaching the United States from the Soviet Union. And as nuclear weapons were at that time much bigger and heavier than they are now, the Soviet rockets were made big enough to carry the weapons. After the middle 'fifties a few of the rockets were workable, and they have been the means by which the Soviet Union achieved its spectacular lead in space. * * * UNTIL about 1957, when the first Sputnik was put in orbit, we did not feel challenged by these big rockets. There was no particu- lar reason to think that the Soviet Union had enough accurate rockets and enough nuclear weapons to fit Sanity OUR FIGHT against Commu- nism must be a sane, rational understanding of the facts. We must remember that many non- Communists may legitimately, on their own, oppose the same laws or take positions on issues of the day which are also held by the Communists. T h e i r opinions, them. It was not believed that there was a rocket threat to the United States. We still had the armed bombers and we did not yet have smaller nuclear weapons which our smaller rockets could carry. After Sputnik in October, 1957, we began to feel challenged, and began to respond, although at first slowly. A year later, we adopted Project Mercury, a three-year pro- gram which has produced the flights of Shepard and Grissom and the orbital flight of Glenn. - The Soviet challenge, to which Project Mercigry has been the bril- liantly successful response, was to match the Soviet orbital flights using our smaller rockets. To do this, our technologists and engi- neers had to reduce all the neces- sary mechanisms for a manned orbit flight to a much smaller scale and to much less weight. They succeeded and they made Col. Glenn's flight possible. * 1k * THERE IS reason to suppose that in meeting the Soviet chal- lenge we have in certain ways forged ahead of the Soviets. For under the prod of our necessity- the comparative smallness of our rockets--we have developed to a high point the art of making small and light mechanisms. When we do have big rockets, as of course we shall in the near and foreseeable future, this would en- able us to pack them with a big payload of scientific instruments. All this will be a challenge to the' Soviet Union which, we may be sure, it will in its turn work to meet. For in this field either na- tion is quite capable of doing any- thing that the other has done. IT IS salutary; I believe,, to re- member and to realize that what put first one competitor ahead and then the other is the push of ne- cessity. The race is enormously ex- pensive and the work required is heavy and exacting. There is no reason to think that either society, theirs or ours, would make such an effort were it not pushed by the competition of the other. Soviet expansion pushed us into encirclement with manned bomb- ers. This pushed the Soviets into making the big rcokets. This in turn. has pushed 'us into making smaller weapons which are as pow- erful as the bigger ones and small-, er mechanisms which are as efil-' cient as the bigger ones. Without the competitive push the two coun- tries would still explore space. But they would do it at a much more leisurely pace and with littlelsense of urgency about the result. (c) 1962, New York Herald Tribune, inc. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3564,Administration Building before 2 p.m., two days preceding publication. FRIDAY, MARCH 2 General Notices College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Schools of Business Ad- ministration,, Education, Music, Natur- al Resources, Nursing, and Public Health: Students who received marks of I, X, or 'no report' at the end of their last semester or summer session of attendance will receive a grade of "~E" in the course or courses unless this work is made up. The final date for acceptance of make-up grades this semester is. March 12, 1962. Students wishingan extension of time beyond these dates should file a petition with the appropriate official of their school, In the School of Nursing the above information refers to non-Nursing courses only. Applications for the selective Service college qualification test are now being distributed at the Ann Arbor Selective Service Board, 103 East Liberty. Appli- cations must be in by March 27, 1962. The University of Michigan Blood Bank Association, in cooperation with the American Red Cross, will have its regular Blood Bank Clinic on March 28, 1962. The Clinic hours are 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. Any full-time or part-time reg- ularly employed staff member of the University interested in becoming a member or renewing his membership should contact the Personnel Office, 1028 Administration Bldg., Extension 2834. The following student sponsored so- cial events are approved for the com- ing week end. Social chairmen are re- minded that requests for approval for social events are due in the Office of Student Affairs not later than 12 o'- clock noon on the Tuesday prior to the event. March 2, 1962--Theta Chi, Mixer. March 3, 1962-Adams House, Open Dance; Theta "Chi, Casual Party; Theta Delta Chi, Dance; Triangle, Party; Ty- ler-Prescott House, Open Open House; Zeta Beta 'Tau, Party. History Make-up Examinations will be held Saturday, March 3, 9-12 a.m. in Room 25 Angell Hall. Pleases consult your instructor and then sign the list in the History Office, 3601 Haven Hall. Events Sunday Degree Recital: Constance Cowan flute, will present a recital on Sun., March 4, 8:30 p.m., Lane Hall Audi- torium. Accompanying Miss Cowan on the piano and harpsichord is Joyce N. Verhaar and assistaing will be Carol Jewell and Penny Lint, violins, Susan Schneider, viola, and Carolyn Halik, cello. Open to the general public. Events Monday Engineering Mechanics and Metal- lurgical Engineering Seminar: Mon., March 5, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 311 West Engineering Bldg. Dr. J. A. Her- zog, Advanced Metallurgical Studies Branch, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, will speak on "Morphology and Strength of Iron Whiskers." Coffee will be served at 3:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge. Pacement ANNOUNCEMENT: PLACEMENT INTERVIEWS-Correc- tion in next week's schedule: FRI., MARCH 9- 1) Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., NYC. 2) Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc., Chicago, 3) Rand Corp., Santa Monica, Calif. 4),N. W. Ayer & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. (These companies will hold inter- views on Fri., March 9 instead of Thurs., March 8, as stated in yester- day's DOB.) Interested seniors please call Bureau of Appoint's., Ext. 3544 for interview appointments. POSITION OPENINGS: City of Madison Heights, Mich.-Ad- ministrative Assistant to City Man- ager. MA in Public Admin. City has population of 34,000 - has ultimate of 50,000. In Detroit Metropolitan Area. PREMIERES: Forum- o Feature New U' Compositons GRADUATE STUDENTS of the school of music will participate in a Composers Forum in Aud. A tonight at 8:30. All composers represented are students of Ross Lee Finney, the University's composer- in-residence. The works vary from compositions for solo instrument to large ensembles. Many are having world premieres. Roger Reynolds, editor of Generation, will have two works on the forum, a second performance of Wedge (which had its world premiere during the ONCE festival) and the premiere of sections of his new String Quartet. Mr. Reynolds is a teaching fellow in the composition department. Gregory Kosteck, whose Sonata for Piano had its first performance during ONCE will have a second performance of that work, and the premiere of his new Four Pieces for Cello, Winds, Percussion, and Harps. This work requires a large body of instruments, and features Enid Dubbe as solo cellist. *~ * * DAVID MAVES, a graduate of the University of Oregon, makes his first appearance in a Michigan Composers Forum this. evening with a performance of his Fantasy for Cello and Percussion. He has written while studying with Ross Lee Finney. Mr. Maves has studied with Leon Kirchner and Homer Keller as well as Finney. He will play the percussion parts in his work, and Arthur Hunkins will appear as cello soloist. Uel Wade's Contrasts for Unaccompanied Viola will have its